Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development.

A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH (total artificial heart), which just had the first prototype implanted in a human patient ... of whether it’s a biological or mechanical ...

have developed a biological heart patch. Applied directly to the heart muscle, it is designed to restore part of the heart's contractile function by gradually integrating with the native tissue. The ...

Very strong. A biological heart valve is a heart valve recovered from a donor or created from donor tissue. A cadaveric valve comes from a human donor. Bovine valves are recovered from cows and ...

The last two decades have seen an increase in the use of biological over mechanical heart valve replacements. However, while ...